Moralising the demoralised

January 2, 2019

The body of standards or principals derived from a code
of conduct as part of the land’s time-honoured culture and believed by many to
be universal has just faced mass disfavour in society at large. The narratives,
both poetic and prose as well as the visuals presented through the big screen
in various languages, including Kannada, are blamed by the elderly for the
current scenario of the relationship between the two genders gone awry. If the
parties involved in the relationship, exhilarating as long as the bond stays
intact, are enjoying charged, even surcharged with the proverbial
devil-may-care attitude, the rest in society is feeling lost even as they are
harping on moralising the demoralised as perceived by the senior citizens.

The allurements that go with the inter-gender connect
don’t seem to have spared even characters figuring in the land’s epics, the
rishis of yore reputed for their hold over temptations, personalities of our
times with highly rated profile, not to speak of ordinary mortals.

The prescription of passing the responsibility of a
regulator to keep the society at large on the track of moral behaviour in open
domain amounts to putting the cart before the horse as it were. Damage has
already been done in the matter of people at large complying with the Code of
Conduct, specially not to hurt the modesty of the female gender in the
population, thanks to the free flow of porn, in addition to the
all-too-familiar sexist Indian cinema. Out of 220 Kannada movies produced
during the previous year, only a handful number of them were reportedly gender
sensitive, indicating the huge impact of cinema on social behaviour.

The need for creating an environment in the country that
discourages filmmakers in particular from churning out sexist films can be
addressed only if the society extends its helping hands as partners in the
business of making movies.

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